Paul Krugman: Economics of Innovation, Automation, Safety Nets & Universal Basic Income

Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize winner in economics, professor at CUNY, and columnist at the New York Times. His academic work centers around international economics, economic geography, liquidity traps, and currency crises.

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00:00 - Introduction 03:44 - Utopia from an economics perspective 04:51 - Competition 06:33 - Well-informed citizen 07:52 - Disagreements in economics 09:57 - Metrics of outcomes 13:00 - Safety nets 15:54 - Invisible hand of the market 21:43 - Regulation of tech sector 22:48 - Automation 25:51 - Metric of productivity 30:35 - Interaction of the economy and politics 33:48 - Universal basic income 36:40 - Divisiveness of political discourse 42:53 - Economic theories 52:25 - Starting a system on Mars from scratch 55:11 - International trade 59:08 - Writing in a time of radicalization and Twitter mobs https://lexfridman.com/paul-krugman/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=paul-krugman

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